Healthy Belly Box Subscription Review + Coupon- September 2016

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Healthy Belly Box is a monthly snack subscription box filled with eight or more gluten-free, vegan snacks from trusted brands. While I’m not vegan nor gluten-free, I do try to incorporate as much of those types of foods into my diet as I can—though tasty ones can be hard to find. I’m interested to see what snacks this box has to offer!

With every box sold, Healthy Belly Box donates $1 to credible charities that support people with digestive diseases.

This note includes a great backstory about the founder, who is a college student with digestive issues and sensitivity to gluten. Healthy Belly Box currently mixes expensive local gluten-free snacks with more accessible snacks. Their goal is to become an almost exclusively high-quality boutique of gluten-free snacks.

This box was sent to us at no cost for review. (Check out thereview process post to learn more about how we review boxes.)

These coconut chips are little crispy strips with a nutty, rich coconut flavor (which makes sense, as they’re literally just toasted coconut, cane sugar, and salt). If you’re looking for something to nibble on, these chips seem like a healthy, unprocessed alternative to regular chips. I like snacks with a crunch, and these definitely satisfied.

These snacks were so good. Apart from sesame, coconut and vanilla bean are on the ingredients list, and you can definitely taste those sweet flavors in this treat. The toasty taste is somewhere between a vanilla cookie and a crunchy granola bar. I plowed through half this container during my last Netflix binge. Yum!

This bar is sweet and chewy. It has a rich blueberry flavor, as you can guess by the purple color of the bar! It’s super healthy (it’s essentially just a bunch of fruit in the form of a bar) and pretty filling, too.

Holy smokes, these cookies are awesome. They taste a lot like a certain other packaged, snack-aisle cookie, but without all of the processed junk inside. They’re crunchy, sweet, and even a little bit savory in the way a great chocolate chip cookie should be. I ate these by themselves, but I bet they’d go awesome with a cup of coffee (or a big glass of your favorite milk).

I’m a big Larabar fan. These bars are made with just a handful of recognizable ingredients (this one is dates, almonds, and unsweetened cherries) that are blended together into a perfectly sweet, super flavorful snack. I was very excited to see this soft and chewy bar in the box!

I’d never heard of Whenever Bars, so I was curious to see what this would be like. It’s almost like a small, moist scone. Soft and chewy and just sweet enough. This bar felt very breakfasty to me, but I could see snacking on it…well… whenever!

Pirate’s Booty snacks are like healthy versions of the classic, melt-in-your-mouth cheese puffs with subtle, but still incredibly addictive flavors. This white cheddar version isn’t as sharp as other cheese snacks, but given that they’re void of gluten, trans fat, and spooky artificial ingredients, I’m more than happy to enjoy ’em. And it’s not hard—this little bag went fast!

The Verdict: I was very impressed with the Healthy Belly Box! When I eat gluten-free, I do so by choice. But I know that not all gluten-free snacks are created equal (meaning not all of them are legitimately gluten-free, and not all of them are that tasty). I appreciated that this box introduced unique yet reputable brands with products that rivaled the flavor of non-gluten-free snacks. Of course, the fun of discovering new snacks does come with a price—the value of the snacks only hits about $19.00, which is way under the $34.99 cost of the box. But maybe if you don’t live near lots of gluten-free food purveyors, the convenience of just receiving snacks via this box would make that price worthwhile!

Anna loves collecting little treasures, be they pop-culture finds, handmade mementos, or new potions to put in her makeup bag. Beauty boxes got her interested in the subscription world, but now she’s swooning for all things kawaii!

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4 Comments

Melanie
October 23, 2016 at 2:59 pm

Hi,

I disagree about the price. I got a box subscribtion for my college student. It’s difficult for him to find snacks that don’t cause him pain on campus. I felt the box was well priced for the value.
Not everyone lives in an area that promotes affordable GF snacks. This was a great gift for him!

Whenever bars are awesome. I really like the coconut oat and chocolate ones! Those sesame bars sound really good too. Strangely/sadly the link you have for them currently says the site doesn’t exist.
Pretty much everything in this box looks tasty, though it’s not for me. It costs too much, for me, especially since I live in an area with a lot of access to this type of food. But they do seem to have done a good job of picking things 🙂